Offensive Coordinator Rob Chudzinski likes the end around, a simple handoff to a wideout circling through the backfield after the snap. Joshua Cribbs ran one after Carter’s two tries.

Jurevicius finally got to sprint, breaking downfield out of the left slot, catching a 15-yard pass from Derek Anderson. Then it was back to the end around — Braylon Edwards this time.

A horn blared. Scattered over four practice fields, 87 Browns contracted for a full-team stretch.

After stretching, receivers coach Wes Chandler took his men for more personal attention. Chandler, like Braylon Edwards, is a former No. 3 overall draft pick.

Offensive assistant Frank Verducci kneeled by a sideline stripe and flicked footballs to a point receivers had to scoop them off the grass on the run.

Chandler praised Cribbs for saving a ball that looked uncatchable. Jurevicius went one better, with a stretched-out, one-handed snag an inch off the turf.

“Ow! Yeah!” Verducci said.

Ow? It fits in that Chandler en_joys testing his troops against pain.

In a concentration drill, receivers lined up with their backs to Verducci, just several yards away. Chandler barked a signal. Verducci’s pass is in the air before the receiver turns. You half expect the nose of a ball to wedge in a receiver’s facemask.

Chandler interrupted after three of these: “Throw it harder, coach.”

Then came downfield blocking drills — 40 slant ... 50 power ... 60 Zorro. Rookie Syndric Septoe graded out at zero when it was his turn.

“Damn!” Chandler barked at the nervous seventh-round pick. “I just told you. ... Are you listening?”

Steptoe, 22, was followed by Jurevcius, 32.

“Attaway,” Chandler told the veteran. “Good angle. Good angle.”

The quarterbacks rejoined the wideouts.

Steptoe seemed lightning quick on a drill in which receivers took a fake step forward at the snap, then a quick step backward to field a quick pass. Cribbs seemed sluggish. Carter was quick but couldn’t handle an Anderson strike.

The coaches seem fascinated by Carter’s speed. On one fly pattern, young cornerback Jereme Perry, whose ticket to a roster spot is speed, grunted while trying to hang with Carter, then grunted harder when realizing he couldn’t.

Cribbs ran a sideline route against safety Sean Jones, the best all-around player on last year’s defense.

Cribbs used a secret move he says he pulls out every now and then. Charlie Frye fired him a sideline strike.

After getting smoked, Jones said something to Cribbs that made both men laugh.

Frye showed some chemistry with Edwards on short slants. On one, Edwards was covered tightly by the considerably smaller Wright. Edwards used his body to make a catch, then made a power spin to try to escape.

This wasn’t a contact drill, but it made you wonder if bigger receivers will give Wright trouble.

In another session, offensive players lined up in assorted formations. Chudzinski is big on mixing up looks. One empty-backfield formation split five men on the line at intervals outside the tackles. Before the snap, running back Jamal Lewis and fullback Lawrence Vickers shifted into I-formation.

In a seven-on-seven drill, Anderson’s rocket arm had too much fuel. He threw behind Edwards on a slant. Edwards made like a contortionist, but the fastball zipped off his hand as he twisted backward.

During one stretch, defensive backs punched footballs out of the hands of Cribbs and longshot roster hopeful Efram Hill.

“That’s two!” a coach screamed after the Hill fumble. “Can’t have that.”

It’ll take a few more sessions before the Browns know what they have in this receiving corps.